後設哲學
Metaphilosophy
| 節 | 週三 |
|---|---|
8 16:30–17:20 | 後設哲學 YX206 3 節連堂 |
9 17:30–18:20 | |
A 18:30–19:20 |
* 根據陽明交大上課時間表所列
Summary There are many reasons to do philosophy: for university credits, for fun, to challenge authority, to expand conceptual horizons, to become a better person, or to discover the meaning of life. But how do you actually do it? What is philosophy, really? And, how is philosophy different from other disciplines, if at all? Many of these questions are as old as philosophy itself, and we will explore them in this class. Topics of discussion will include "armchair" methods (conceptual analysis, conceptual explication, conceptual engineering, thought experiments), criticisms of those methods (experimental philosophy's "negative program"), the "proper" role for intuition in philosophy, the use of scientific data in philosophy (including experimental philosophy), cross-cultural differences, and the aims of philosophy. Objectives The goal of this course is to improve students' understanding of and capacity to succeed in the discipline of philosophy, by doing philosophy about philosophy. We will develop and analyze different frameworks about the nature of philosophy, and in so doing, nurture students' abilities to: reason critically and creatively, as well as to present their ideas in discussion, writing and presentations, Students will also gain familiarity with the fundamental assumptions and methods of metaphilosophy. As several weeks will be devoted to developments in experimental philosophy, students will also learn how to interact with (and if they like, pursue) research of that kind.
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All students will be expected to write a very short reflection piece (2 paragraphs) due at least 1 hour before each class, starting in week 2 (40%), and a term paper on a topic of their choice (worth 60%). For graduate students, the term paper will be maximum 3000 words. For undergraduate students the term paper will be a maximum of 1500 words.
| 週次 | 主題 |
|---|---|
| 第 1 週 | Introduction, overview of course and syllabus |
| 第 2 週 | Rationalism and Empiricism • Rules I-III of Descartes, "Rules for the Direction of the Mind" • Bonjour, "Précis of In Defense of Pure Reason" • Kornblith, "In defense of a naturalized epistemology" |
| 第 3 週 | Logical Empiricism • Carnap, "Two Early Metaphilosophical Texts" • Uebel, "Carnap's Transformation of Epistemology and the Development of His Metaphilosophy" • Morris, "Carnap and Quine: Analyticity, Naturalism, and the Elimination of Metaphysics" |
| 第 4 週 | Ordinary Language Philosophy • Moore, "A Reply to My Critics" • Grice, "Postwar Oxford Philosophy" • Rorty, "Metaphilosophical Difficulties of Linguistic Philosophy" |
| 第 5 週 | Modern Analytic Philosophy: Intuition • Bishop and Trout, "The Pathologies of Standard Analytic Epistemology" • Malmgren, "Review of Philosophy without Intuitions" • Nado, "Why Intuition?" • Chalmers, "Intuition: A Minimal Defense" |
| 第 6 週 | Modern Analytic Philosophy: Thought Experiments • Cooper, "Thought Experiments" • Gendler, "Thought Experiments and Philosophical Methodology" • Dennett, Intuition Pumps • Video: "Dennett dissects a bad intuition pump": https://bigthink.com/videos/daniel-dennett-on-thought-experiment-details/. |
| 第 7 週 | Modern Analytic Philosophy: Conceptual Analysis • Harman, "Doubts about Conceptual Analysis" • Jackson, "A Defense of Conceptual Analysis" • Laurence and Margolis, "Concepts and Conceptual Analysis" |
| 第 8 週 | The Great Reckoning of the Early 2000s • Weinberg, Nichols and Stich, "Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions" |
| 第 9 週 | Experimental Philosophy: Methods • Sytsma and Livengood, "The Theory and Practice of Experimental Philosophy" |
| 第 10 週 | Experimental Philosophy: The Negative Program • Weinberg, "What is Negative Experimental Philosophy Good for?" • Williamson, "Philosophical Criticisms of Experimental Philosophy" |
| 第 11 週 | Experimental Philosophy: The Positive Program • Knobe, "Intentional Action in Folk Psychology" |
| 第 12 週 | Criticisms of Experimental Philosophy • Ludwig, "Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy" • Knobe, "Philosophical intuitions are surprisingly robust across demographic differences" |
| 第 13 週 | Defense of Experimental Philosophy • Stich and Tobia, "Intuition and Its Critics" • Stich and Machery, "Demographic Differences in Philosophical Intuition: A Reply to Joshua Knobe, 'Difference and Robustness in the Patterns of Philosophical Intuition Across Demographic Groups'" • Nagel, "Intuitions and Experiments: A Defense of the Case Method in Epistemology" |
| 第 14 週 | The "Proper" Role for Intuition in Philosophy • Deutsch, "Intuitions, Counter-Examples, and Experimental Philosophy" • Machery, Philosophy within its Proper Bounds • Andow, "If Philosophers Aren’t Using Intuitions as Evidence, What are they Doing?" |
| 第 15 週 | Philosophical Progress • Moody, "Progress in Philosophy" • Chalmers, "Why isn't there more Progress in Philosophy?" • Horgan, "Philosophy has Made Plenty of Progress" (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/philosophy-has-made-plenty-of-progress/). • Papineau, "Is Philosophy Simply Harder than Science? Why Philosophy Seems to Make Such Slow Progress" (https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/philosophy-simply-harder-science-essay-david-papineau/) • Dellsén et al. "Thinking about Progress: From Science to Philosophy" |
| 第 16 週 | The Aim(s) of Philosophy • Buzzoni, "The Janus-Faced Nature of Philosophy of Science: Eleven Theses" • Hannon and Nguyen, "Understanding Philosophy" • Rescher, "The Task of Philosophy" |
| 第 17 週 | When/How Real Life Impacts Philosophical/Academic Methods • Graphic Novel: Logicomix • TV Series: The Chair |
| 第 18 週 | Philosophizing in Non-Traditional Ways • Film: I Heart Huckabees • Film: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology |
All readings will be uploaded to the Google Classroom webpage.
- 聯絡方式
- mikestuart@nycu.edu.tw